CW's New Job Thread

Coffee Warlord · 05-06-2005, 10:07 PM

So, I went in Thursday to get brought up to speed by the guy I'm replacing.

I arrived at 10am. Including an hour or so lunch, I was gone by 2pm, having gone over everything this guy does. It's, to put it mildly, one cushy position.

There's about 8 client websites that require a content change every once in a blue moon. There's a monthy usage report to one client. There are 2 servers to keep running. There are occaisonal employees having computer difficulty to deal with.

That's...it.

Wolfpack · 05-06-2005, 10:46 PM

Sounds like you'll be doing some creative work to "properly" bill your hours if your responsibilities are that small. Either that or you took the bait on a bad job that's gonna hit you like an anvil a few days after you start.

DaddyTorgo · 05-06-2005, 10:47 PM

i vote for the bad job anvil scenario. not cuz i want it to be true, it just seems more likely that's all.

sooner333 · 05-06-2005, 10:53 PM

Soooooooo...why'd the other guy leave anyway?

robbgmaier · 05-07-2005, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by sooner333

Soooooooo...why'd the other guy leave anyway?

he probably got carpal tunnel in both wrists

Coffee Warlord · 05-07-2005, 11:36 AM

The story I got was he wanted to write more code. This isn't a very hardcore code-writing job. There's a push to get me to be able to deal with new clients as the 'geek with communication skills', something this guy did not want to do.

The story does fit. Guy had the personality of a rock.

sterlingice · 05-08-2005, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

The story I got was he wanted to write more code. This isn't a very hardcore code-writing job. There's a push to get me to be able to deal with new clients as the 'geek with communication skills', something this guy did not want to do.

The story does fit. Guy had the personality of a rock.

So, uh, how were you an improvement?

SI

Farrah Whitworth-Rahn · 05-08-2005, 05:02 AM

CW are you going to keep contracting on the side, or does this position restrict you from doing so?

Coffee Warlord · 05-08-2005, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Farrah Whitworth-Rahn

CW are you going to keep contracting on the side, or does this position restrict you from doing so?

I will if I so choose. I won't particularly need the money, but there's a few local clients I'll keep in touch with, and I always listen to side project stuff. Those are usually the most fun.

Coffee Warlord · 05-09-2005, 11:03 AM

Welp, day 1 of work.

Two 5-minute content changes, and an account exec from PCMall called me to introduce himself.

And I told someone in the office to reboot their computer.

That's been my day so far.

Ksyrup · 05-09-2005, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by sterlingice

So, uh, how were you an improvement?

SI

Two words: Penguin Hat.

Bee · 05-09-2005, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Welp, day 1 of work.

Two 5-minute content changes, and an account exec from PCMall called me to introduce himself.

And I told someone in the office to reboot their computer.

That's been my day so far.

You better slow down or you won't have anything to do this afternoon.

Coffee Warlord · 05-09-2005, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Two words: Penguin Hat.

God damned right.

That penguin is already at the office, too. Sitting on my next, mocking all these accursed mac users.

Coffee Warlord · 05-09-2005, 02:01 PM

I need a nap.

Desnudo · 05-09-2005, 03:11 PM

Sounds rough.

Coffee Warlord · 05-09-2005, 03:20 PM

Holy SHIT, we have an extremely hot mother/daughter combo in the office.

chinaski · 05-09-2005, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Holy SHIT, we have an extremely hot mother/daughter combo in the office.

Oh man, thats the ultimate office combination.

JasonC23 · 05-09-2005, 03:27 PM

(Insert obvious request here)

Coffee Warlord · 05-09-2005, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JasonC23

(Insert obvious request here)

I'm already searching through the files for pics

Coffee Warlord · 05-09-2005, 03:49 PM

They might be sisters, I'm not sure. I just have trouble believing she's old enough to have a daughter in her mid-late teens. Both are exceedingly hot.

Ksyrup · 05-09-2005, 04:32 PM

This could quickly turn into a CW's Old Job thread, take 2.

judicial clerk · 05-09-2005, 04:51 PM

So has anybody actually had sisters?"

finkenst · 05-09-2005, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by judicial clerk

So has anybody actually had sisters?"

apparently you missed CW's thread from a while back.

judicial clerk · 05-09-2005, 06:39 PM

I remember that thread, but CW didn't actually close the deal with both sisters if I remember correctly.

Coffee Warlord · 05-10-2005, 09:28 AM

Day two. I'm out smoking a cigarette, some lady pulls up, in a very thin white blouse, and a distinct lack of bra.

Yay nipples!

st.cronin · 05-10-2005, 09:31 AM

I often carry around a super soaker during summer months for that situation.

bossfan2000 · 05-10-2005, 09:46 AM

this thread is awesome.

I just relocated to nashville from atlanta for a new job back in Feb, and found out last week we are getting bought out. nice. So out house still hasnt sold in Atlanta, and now the job situation could get iffy the next few months. good stuff. maybe i should have stayed at the weather channel

Actually, we like Nashville too much to fall back to Atl..hopefully there are some more good java programming jobs here, in case they decide to let us go later in the year.

Honolulu_Blue · 05-10-2005, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Day two. I'm out smoking a cigarette, some lady pulls up, in a very thin white blouse, and a distinct lack of bra.

Yay nipples!

Wow, CW. Either you're really hard up or you got a job in some sort of pornovision parallel dimension.

Radii · 05-10-2005, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by bossfan2000

this thread is awesome.

I just relocated to nashville from atlanta for a new job back in Feb, and found out last week we are getting bought out. nice. So out house still hasnt sold in Atlanta, and now the job situation could get iffy the next few months. good stuff. maybe i should have stayed at the weather channel

Actually, we like Nashville too much to fall back to Atl..hopefully there are some more good java programming jobs here, in case they decide to let us go later in the year.

I'll buy your house in Atlanta for $50,000!

Coffee Warlord · 05-10-2005, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

Wow, CW. Either you're really hard up or you got a job in some sort of pornovision parallel dimension.

I've been living in hellhole Illinois for 2.5 years. I'd forgottten what truly attractive women look like.

bossfan2000 · 05-10-2005, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Radii

I'll buy your house in Atlanta for $50,000!

Its actually in Powder Springs, so would that raise or lower your offer

Balldog · 05-10-2005, 10:28 AM

We only employ fat and unattractive women...

Two years and I can get a new job...

Yossarian · 05-10-2005, 11:24 AM

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Two years and I can get a new job...

parole due?

Balldog · 05-10-2005, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Yossarian

parole due?

Haha! No! The way our tuition reimbursement works is I have to pay them back for the schooling if I leave within a year of finishing school. A year of school left, then I have to sit here and wait for the year after to expire.

Desnudo · 05-10-2005, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Day two. I'm out smoking a cigarette, some lady pulls up, in a very thin white blouse, and a distinct lack of bra.

Yay nipples!

This is highly inapropriate for a thread that's supposed to be about work.

Wolfpack · 05-10-2005, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Desnudo

This is highly inapropriate for a thread that's supposed to be about work.

I get the impression this is CW's work now. The rest of his job is details.

JasonC23 · 05-10-2005, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

I'm already searching through the files for pics

Ahem...

dawgfan · 05-10-2005, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

I've been living in hellhole Illinois for 2.5 years. I'd forgottten what truly attractive women look like.

I've generally avoided the generalized notions of some cities or regions in this country having more attractive women than others, and I'm aware that what parts of town you happen to spend most of your time in influence this perception, but damn - Chicago has a lot of very attractive women!

Desnudo · 05-10-2005, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by dawgfan

I've generally avoided the generalized notions of some cities or regions in this country having more attractive women than others, and I'm aware that what parts of town you happen to spend most of your time in influence this perception, but damn - Chicago has a lot of very attractive women!

He wasn't living in Chicago for 2.5 years.

Desnudo · 05-10-2005, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by JasonC23

Ahem...

We need to get him a camera tie.

dawgfan · 05-10-2005, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Desnudo

He wasn't living in Chicago for 2.5 years.

I'm comparing what I've seen so far in Chicago to what I've seen for the last 35 years in Seattle. Maybe it's a case of the grass is greener syndrome, but it sure seems like the percentage of attractive women here is greater than it is back in Seattle...

Desnudo · 05-10-2005, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by dawgfan

I'm comparing what I've seen so far in Chicago to what I've seen for the last 35 years in Seattle. Maybe it's a case of the grass is greener syndrome, but it sure seems like the percentage of attractive women here is greater than it is back in Seattle...

No, I meant he wasn't living in the Chicago area for the past 2.5 years. I believe he was out in the sticks somewhere.

I think it depends on what you find attractive. There are a lot of cute outdoorsy types in Seattle, but not as many stunners as say, San Francisco.

dawgfan · 05-10-2005, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Desnudo

No, I meant he wasn't living in the Chicago area for the past 2.5 years. I believe he was out in the sticks somewhere.

I got that part. I was just adding some confirmation that, at least from my perscpective, he's not imagining things by seeing a lot of hotties in Chicago.

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Originally Posted by Desnudo

I think it depends on what you find attractive. There are a lot of cute outdoorsy types in Seattle, but not as many stunners as say, San Francisco.

That's definitely true - Seattle attracts more outdoorsy/granola types than most other places. Some of them can be very attractive, but a lot aren't (not so much because of apparrel or grooming habits, but they're simply not very pretty).

Part of my observation on Chicago women is based on breasts - a greater percentage here possess nicely sized/shaped ones than I'm used to seeing in Seattle.

The other thing that may be a factor is just the normal impression one gets this time of year as the weather improves and the clothes change that there are suddenly more attractive women walking around.

judicial clerk · 05-10-2005, 04:37 PM

Nothing beats So Cal.

JeeberD · 05-10-2005, 04:38 PM

Nothing beats Dallas.

bossfan2000 · 05-10-2005, 04:41 PM

i'd say nothing beats the South...

dawgfan · 05-10-2005, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by judicial clerk

Nothing beats So Cal.

Eh. There's certainly a ton of good-looking women, but so many of them are fake-looking that it lessens the interest for me. I'm not so much into the heavily-tanned, plastic-surgery and fake tits thing that's so common in SoCal. Even worse (to me) is Miami - they really go overboard on the fake tits. Maybe they're trying to hard to compete with the cuban girls with the naturally large breasts...

judicial clerk · 05-10-2005, 05:00 PM

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Maybe they're trying to hard to compete with the cuban girls with the naturally large breasts...

wait just a second,.... I never knew that Cuban chicks have naturally large breastseses.

dawgfan · 05-10-2005, 05:03 PM

A girlfriend of mine grew up in Miami and talked a lot about how it was tough to compete with all the curvy cuban girls and other latinas she went to school with, so that's where I'm getting that info. I dunno how true it is, but I do know when I visited Miami there was no shortage of surgically enhanced women walking around...

Desnudo · 05-10-2005, 05:07 PM

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wait just a second,.... I never knew that Cuban chicks have naturally large breastseses.

We really need to normalize relations with Cuba.

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05-06-2005, 10:46 PM	#2
Wolfpack Pro Rookie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC	Sounds like you'll be doing some creative work to "properly" bill your hours if your responsibilities are that small. Either that or you took the bait on a bad job that's gonna hit you like an anvil a few days after you start.

05-06-2005, 10:47 PM	#3
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	i vote for the bad job anvil scenario. not cuz i want it to be true, it just seems more likely that's all.

05-06-2005, 10:53 PM	#4
sooner333 College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Norman, OK	Soooooooo...why'd the other guy leave anyway?

05-07-2005, 11:36 AM	#6
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	The story I got was he wanted to write more code. This isn't a very hardcore code-writing job. There's a push to get me to be able to deal with new clients as the 'geek with communication skills', something this guy did not want to do. The story does fit. Guy had the personality of a rock.

05-08-2005, 05:02 AM	#8
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn Red-Headed Vixen Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ	CW are you going to keep contracting on the side, or does this position restrict you from doing so?

05-09-2005, 11:03 AM	#10
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	Welp, day 1 of work. Two 5-minute content changes, and an account exec from PCMall called me to introduce himself. And I told someone in the office to reboot their computer. That's been my day so far.

05-09-2005, 02:01 PM	#14
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	I need a nap.

05-09-2005, 03:11 PM	#15
Desnudo Coordinator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Here and There	Sounds rough.

05-09-2005, 03:20 PM	#16
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	Holy SHIT, we have an extremely hot mother/daughter combo in the office.

05-09-2005, 03:49 PM	#20
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	They might be sisters, I'm not sure. I just have trouble believing she's old enough to have a daughter in her mid-late teens. Both are exceedingly hot.

05-09-2005, 04:51 PM	#22
judicial clerk College Benchwarmer Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Portland, OR	So has anybody actually had sisters?"

05-09-2005, 06:39 PM	#24
judicial clerk College Benchwarmer Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Portland, OR	I remember that thread, but CW didn't actually close the deal with both sisters if I remember correctly.

05-10-2005, 09:28 AM	#25
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	Day two. I'm out smoking a cigarette, some lady pulls up, in a very thin white blouse, and a distinct lack of bra. Yay nipples!

05-10-2005, 09:31 AM	#26
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	I often carry around a super soaker during summer months for that situation.

05-10-2005, 10:28 AM	#32
Balldog Pro Rookie Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Macomb, MI	We only employ fat and unattractive women... Two years and I can get a new job...

05-10-2005, 04:37 PM	#44
judicial clerk College Benchwarmer Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Portland, OR	Nothing beats So Cal.

05-10-2005, 05:03 PM	#49
dawgfan Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Seattle	A girlfriend of mine grew up in Miami and talked a lot about how it was tough to compete with all the curvy cuban girls and other latinas she went to school with, so that's where I'm getting that info. I dunno how true it is, but I do know when I visited Miami there was no shortage of surgically enhanced women walking around...

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